Memoranda

The first benefits after the exit from the memoranda are already visible, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said in an interview noting that the first measures of immediate relief already change the everyday life of millions of people".

"Not only did the government manage to exit the (loan) memorandum without new measures, but it also took social measures to relieve citizens," government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said on Thursday in an interview.

Greece is "heading steadily towards the exit from the long crisis and the suffocating surveillance, and only a short distance remains to the end," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in Parliament on Wednesday.

The clean exit from the memoranda in August along with further debt relief measures will support the Greek economy and help the country reclaim a large part of its sovereighty, Alterate Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos said on…

There will be no extension of the Greek financial assistance programme when this ends in August, nor any precautionary credit line, Economy and Development Minister Yiannis Dragasakis said on Thursday.